JD Vance Earns $235,100 a Year and Wants to Lease a $9 Million Virginia Horse Estate

The estate belongs to one of northern Virginia’s biggest data center developers, an industry Vance has personally pushed to expand from inside the White House. Federal ethics rules generally bar officials from taking gifts from anyone with business before the government, and a below-market lease can count as one.

The property is Wolver Hill, a horse farm about 45 miles from Washington owned by Charles “Chuck” Kuhn, one of the region’s largest landowners and among its most active data center builders.

Vance has been one of the administration’s loudest voices for expanding data centers. He pushed the White House AI Action Plan, a blueprint calling for more data-center capacity and the power to run it, and the president later signed an executive order to speed federal permitting for projects like it. Kuhn builds inside the same corridor the White House targeted early this year, when it leaned on grid operator PJM to hold an emergency auction meant to unlock more than $15 billion for faster grid hookups.

A source familiar with the plans told NBC News the family wants rural space for their kids to enjoy the outdoors. Usha Vance is due to have the couple’s fourth child this month, and the family already has use of the official vice-presidential residence at Number One Observatory Circle.

The open questions are what the Vances would actually pay and whether the deal shows up in his financial disclosures. That last part carries some history: the family holds a $2.3 million house in Cincinnati from his Senate years, and the entity that owns it was missing from his disclosure filings.

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